this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Yeah, many here are celebrating a bit to early because they've only read the bullet point in the press release and not the actual regulation.
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So no, there's no requirement that the battery must be easily swappable on the go. In fact there isn't even the requirement that you must be able to put in a new battery, just that you must be able to remove the old one. "Commercially available tool" might even be a wire cutter to destructively cut the wires that are soldered onto the device's main board. Because this regulation isn't actually about consumer rights, it's about battery recycling. They want people to be able to easily remove the battery at the end of the device's life so that the battery can be collected separately from the electronics. Nothing more, nothing less.
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